Bluets -

Maggie Nelson

Jonathan Cape London

2017

105 páginas

3h 30m

ISBN-13: 9781911214526

Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend.
The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.
Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.

Resenhas (19)

1 (Ruim)

A estrutura fragmentária é interessante e há sim momentos de beleza neste livro, mas são raros: o resto é um acúmulo de referências bibliográficas (será que foi só pra fingir erudição?) jogadas sem qualquer trabalho em cima delas e muita reflexão rasa, ridícula, risível, digna de um perfil do twitter de um adolescente de 14 anos com 7 seguidores. Os fragmentos sobre sexo são, em especial, patéticos.